Marty Callner, Award-Winning Filmmaker

Marty Callner (0:00)

You can't do anything about the past, you can make God laugh, make plans for the future.

You just have to live in the, I live in the moment. This is a great moment, all right? So I'm living in this moment right now. This is the most important thing to me at the present moment. This is what I'm doing right now. I've always had that mindset, and I think that really helps when I do projects, because I'm in the moment of that project, and I don't do multiple projects at once.

Dr. Michael Gervais (0:30)

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Now this week's conversation is with Marty Callner. He's an Emmy and Director's Guild award winning producer and director, an absolute gem of a human being. And his life experience is just textured, it's diverse. All the way from his love life to his professional career. I mean, he's traveled the path of mastery producing and directing talents such as Chris Rock, The Rolling Stones, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Bette Midler, Jerry Seinfeld, Will Ferrell, Garth Brooks, Diana Ross, Britney Spears, Robin Williams. Those are just the name of few. Those are just the ones we talked about in this conversation. And he's also the creator of the ridiculously popular show on HBO called Hard Knocks, which gives viewers a look inside the inner workings of NFL training camps. And Marty's directed over 200 music videos, including the classic Aerosmith Crazy, starring Alicia Silverstone. That's where most people first met her.